Analysis of Bittersweet
Anne- Louise Casserstedt 1968 (Sverige)
A bittersweet reminder of what could have been,
is what life is now.
I have lost it all, there is nothing left.
All I had and all I was is gone.
I can never get my life back to where it was before. Too much is gone.
Too much is forever gone. My life is blank like an empty book,
And I have to fill it again.
How is that possible? A lifetime of memories are gone, there is no way I can fill it again.
I never thought I would be this unhappy again.
How the hell is it possible to start over, to begin all over again?
It seems impossible.
As a singer sang: Where do I begin to tell the story of my life?
| Scheme | X X X A A X B B B B X X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01001011111 11111 1111111101 111011111 111011111111011111 1110101111111101 01111101 111100011100111111111101 1101111101001 10111100111010111001 110100 101011110111010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 589 |
| Words | 127 |
| Sentences | 13 |
| Stanzas | 12 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
| Words per line (avg) | 11 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 38 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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